Simplify Your Life in 295 Easy Steps

I subscribe to a number of life hack/productivity blogs, including the usually good Zen Habits, published by Leo Babauta. Leo is the master of the link bait headline, and recently put out a post entitled "Everything You Wanted to Know About Simplifying Your Life, and Way More" which goes on to list 28 previous posts on simplifying your life.  Of those posts, 9 of them have the classic headline formula of some number of things to do X (like my headline here or ‘Top 12 ways to get people to click on your links’).

Assuming Leo only has one idea in the non-numeric headlined articles (doubtful), I add up 295 ways to simply your life.  Let me give you a hint.  If you need 295 ways to simplify your life, I’d start by cutting down on reading about simplifying your life.

Like I said, Leo usually writes good stuff, but he might as well have linked to his archive page. Granted he warns you don’t need to read everything he links to, but if that sort of warning is needed, it should be enough warning to the author that the article needs some simplification.

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